Alma Man Charged With Rape

An Alma man accused of raping a minor female claims the young girl initiated sexual encounters with him when he was intoxicated, according to an Ozark Police report.

An Alma man accused of raping a minor female claims the young girl initiated sexual encounters with him when he was intoxicated, according to an Ozark Police report.

Howard Danny Williams, 32, has pleaded not guilty in Crawford County Circuit Court to one count of rape and is free on $20,000 bail.

The girl and her stepmother went to police in late April, and the girl told investigators that Williams sexually assaulted her multiple times between May 2008 and May 2012. The girl said the assaults ended when she went out of the area for several months, according to a police report.

Williams stayed with her family at times and usually approached her for sexual acts when he would come home drunk and wake her up or he would come to the house when he wasn’t living with her family under the ruse of taking her to the store, according to the report.

The first assault happened when the girl was babysitting for Williams while his wife was in the hospital giving birth, according to a police report.

Police interviewed Williams about a week after the complaint was made, and he told police the girl initiated sexual encounters with him when he was drunk or under the influence of prescription medications, according to the report.

He would allow the sexual contact to continue, but then start feeling bad and make her stop, according to the report.

Rape is a Class Y felony punishable by 10 to 40 years or life in prison.

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